Rails - Jan 2006 - Max Execution Time with fastcgi (and in general). Getting it done.

The purpose of this email is not to argue that there is a need to  
have the option of killing a single response if it
takes longer than say 30 seconds. This is a worthwhile feature, years  
of work in php has shown me that it is.

Thanks to a bit of help from various source in the community, I''ve  
been able to find something that works with fastcgi
and surely should work with webbrick.

I tried -idle-timeout with the FastCgiConfig/FastCgiServer directives  
and they failed, eg
FastCgiServer /www/vhosts/whatever/public/dispatch.fcgi -idle-timeout 30
left me with dispatch.fcgi still using up 98% of the cpu on my  
intentional infinite loop test.

I tried require "timeout" and Timeout::timeout(2){
logger.info(''im
here'') } in dispatch.fcgi and that failed (pretty sure).


What did work came by suggestion.

In an ApplicationController do:
     def process(*args)
         timeout(30) { logger.info(''killed by me''); super }
     end

and it seems that it only takes care of one response (did some testing).


But, I would like if someone could point out the error in my  
FastCgiServer attempt.

Thanks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hunter Peress
hunterp@sfnewmexican.com
Web Programmer
The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc.
www.freenewmexican.com

Thanks to a bit of help from various source in the community, I''ve  
been able to find something that works with fastcgi
and surely should work with webbrick.

I tried -idle-timeout with the FastCgiConfig/FastCgiServer directives  
and they failed, eg
FastCgiServer /www/vhosts/whatever/public/dispatch.fcgi -idle-timeout 30
left me with dispatch.fcgi still using up 98% of the cpu on my  
intentional infinite loop test.

I tried require "timeout" and Timeout::timeout(2){
logger.info(''im
here'') } in dispatch.fcgi and that failed (pretty sure).


What did work came by suggestion.

In an ApplicationController do:
     def process(*args)
         timeout(30) { logger.info(''killed by me''); super }
     end

and it seems that it only takes care of one response (did some testing).


But, I would like if someone could point out the error in my  
FastCgiServer attempt.

Thanks.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hunter Peress
hunterp@sfnewmexican.com
Web Programmer
The Santa Fe New Mexican, Inc.
www.freenewmexican.com